Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 July 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Yes, I understand. Allow me to put the question. I am accepting all of that. I am saying they were brought in as experts by CHI and supported by the NPHDB. They reported in May and said there was a problem. They came back in October and were hugely upset that the works were not done. They then reported back in November, identified more problems and in fact said it was very disappointing that the work had not been done. The NPHDB then issued a stop notice, essentially, and applied a directive in May of the following year. It then issued a change order where it asked a number of contractors essentially to go into conclave to sort this out. Regarding the change order that asked for workshops to be established, are those workshops up and running?

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